Book description
Earth: expensive, elite graveyard to the galaxy. Ravaged 10,000 years
earlier by war, Earth was reclaimed by its space-dwelling offspring as a
planet of landscaping and tombstones. None of them fully human,
Fletcher, Cynthia, and Elmer journey through this dead world,
discovering human traits and undertaking a quest to rebuild a human
world on Earth. Clifford D. Simak (1904 -1988) Clifford Donald Simak
was born in Wisconsin, in 1904. He attended the University of Wisconsin
and spent his working life in the newspaper business. He flirted briefly
with science fiction in the early '30s but did not start to write
seriously until John W. Campbell's Astounding Stories began to
rejuvenate the field in 1937. Simak was a regular contributor to
Astounding throughout the Golden Age, producing a body of well regarded
work. He won the Nebula and multiple Hugo Awards, and in 1977 was the
third writer to be named a Grand Master by SFWA. He died in 1988.
